Originally Posted by
ancman
Out of all of the issues that APA has, this isn’t one of them.
What does that have to do with anything? I voted the way that I did based on personal convictions, as did everyone else here. Nobody casts a vote based on which way they believe the rest of the pilot group is going to vote. I knew that both would pass.
If your belief is that the pilot group would elect DH, then why be fearful of sending the chair position to a membership-wide vote?
I'm not "afraid" of a membership vote. It's just a dumb proposition with how we currently do union business. Our LECs run the show. They set policy. They vote to approve certain chair positions. They vote for contractual LOAs or TAs. They set the negotiating priorities. The MEC Chairman works directly for the majority of them.
In the current way we do business, we would have to choose between 2 or more random pilots no one has heard of and decide based solely on high school class president quality campaign letters. I promise free food in the crew lounge and hotel points! If that person wins, the LEC has no power to speak for the will of their constituents. 0-9? Too bad..the pilots elected Captain free stuff for everyone.